Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latter are classified 1-0 and permitted under the law "to perform civilian work contributing to the maintenance of the national health, safety or interest"-usually in hospitals or non-profit social agencies. About 5,000 C.O.s are engaged in such chores in the U.S. and nine foreign countries. Says a selective service official: "You have to be sincere to do the jobs they do. Pushing a bedpan around a mental hospital soon begins to wear pretty thin if you aren...
Behind Red Doors. The year Arden originated the magic formula was 1910, four years before her latter-day archrival, Helena Rubinstein, arrived in the States. It was an era when women washed their own hair, when a lady used glycerine, rose water and talcum powder in moderation, when the vilest words that could be hissed were "She paints." Petite (5 ft. 2½ in.), fluttery, auburn-haired Florence Nightingale Graham was only the daughter of an immigrant Ontario truck farmer, but she intended to be a lady. Borrowing 1) a name from two genteel Victorian books (Elizabeth and Her German...
...return to school. Often enough, this was not made clear to NYC enrollees themselves. An eighteen-year-old boy at the agency where I worked was suddenly, in September, given the choice of returning to school or being kicked out of the program two weeks later. He chose the latter...
...York, Macbird, a ham-handed attack on Lyndon Johnson that makes no sense, flashes no wit, and deserves no mercy, was beginning negotiations for rental of an off-Broadway theater in which it plans to open in November. It presents the President and Lady Bird as latter-day Macbeths, murdering anyone who gets in their way, opposing "the Wayne of Morse," and chattering in very blank verse. Heaved together by a 25-year-old former Berkeley student named Barbara Garson, the play and its message are exemplified in Macbeth's lines to his chief of war, Lord MacNamara...
...hung their works from overhead ducts and rafters throughout Turmac's cigarette-making factory in Zevenaar, on the Dutch-German border. The first paintings were abstracts and figuratives, but it was not long before Orlow discovered that the workers tired of the latter almost as swiftly as they tired of their machines. From then on, Orlow stuck strictly to abstracts, moving them about his factory every two or three months-sometimes to the vocal displeasure of employees who had grown fond of a particular painting. At such moments, says Orlow, "I know they really love them...